Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Group in
Barrie On
Supportive Dialectical Behaviour Group Therapy To Help You Navigate Life’s Stresses
Are you looking for guidance with challenging emotions and behaviors?
Do you wish you could get through hard moments and find calm without making things worse?
Is improving relationships and staying present a priority for you, but you need to learn how?
When you are struggling with overwhelming emotions, chronic stress, anxiety, or depression, it’s hard to enjoy life. Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) can provide help.
DBT Is A Powerful Therapeutic Modality
Dialectical Behavior Therapy is a highly structured talk therapy designed to help people manage emotions, reduce unhelpful behaviors, and build a meaningful life. Developed by psychologist Marsha Linehan, it combines cognitive-behavioral techniques with mindfulness and the acknowledgement of opposing realities.
Rather than just restructuring thoughts or discussing ongoing problems—as with other therapeutic modalities—DBT teaches practical skills in mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness to specifically target emotional dysregulation, unhelpful coping behaviors, and reactivity.
Group sessions combine this skill-building with guidance and provide opportunities to apply techniques to real-life situations, including ongoing conflicts, difficulty setting boundaries, and managing emotions more effectively. Despite how isolated you may feel navigating life’s challenges, meaningful support, connection, and change are possible within a therapy group.
DBT Group Therapy In Barrie, Ontario
Our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy group provides a powerful structured and supportive environment that promotes learning and practicing crucial coping skills like mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.
Guided by experienced therapists, as a DBT group member, you will be encouraged to share your experiences, gain insight, and develop meaningful connections with others facing similar challenges. Through this process, you’ll have a chance to experience greater self-awareness, emotional balance, and confidence in navigating daily life with a stronger sense of purpose and presence.
A Dialectical Behaviour Therapy group can help with everyday stress and mental health challenges, such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder (BPD), trauma symptoms, substance misuse and abuse, and eating disorders, among other issues.
Structure Of Our DBT Group Sessions
During sessions, we will engage in a number of activities and approaches, including:
- Mindfulness – encourages you to live more in the present moment, as well as increase awareness of your thoughts, feelings, physical sensations, urges, and behaviours without judgment
- Distress tolerance – aids in enduring emotional pain without reacting to discomfort or making things worse
- Emotional regulation – includes naming and understanding emotions, decreasing the frequency of unpleasant emotions, vulnerability to emotions, and emotional suffering
- Interpersonal effectiveness – involves communicating needs, setting boundaries, balancing the give and take in relationships, and navigating conflicts while maintaining self-respect
Time Commitment And Therapy Group Schedule
We offer both an in-person DBT group at our Barrie, Ontario, office and a virtual group that’s available across Ontario, making the support you seek fit your lifestyle and needs.
- Duration: 10 weeks (with 1 session per week)
- Time investment: 60 to 90 minutes (each group session)
- Cost: $90 per session
Handouts will be provided, and you are encouraged to bring additional writing materials that suit your learning style.
Over the course of the program, you will learn how to survive emotional pain in the moment through self-soothing techniques, radical acceptance, and distraction strategies. By gaining insight into your emotional patterns, you can reduce your vulnerability, increase positive experiences, and cope effectively with anger, anxiety, guilt, shame, and more.
With our support, you’ll find that you can create and build a life that is more in alignment with your values.
Schedule a Free 20-Minute Consultation
About Our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Group Facilitator – Michael Fox, MSW, RSW
Michael received his training through Professional Education Systems Institute (PESI) and Dr. Lane Pederson, a notable DBT expert and author who developed the Dialectical Trauma Recovery Model.
He enjoys conducting this group with Balanced Life Therapy because Dialectical Behaviour Therapy offers tangible skills that can be applied to an ever-growing list of concerns, situations, and problems. And he has witnessed firsthand how, through DBT, individuals can connect with their emotions and understand their vital role in everyday life.
Michael deeply believes in the practical applications of DBT to a wide variety of symptoms and circumstances of our group members, as it is a powerful and flexible program. He currently runs highly successful DBT groups and actively stays on top of the latest developments, seeking client input to ensure sessions are accessible and tailored to meet their needs.Please visit Michael’s About page to learn more.
Creating A Life Of Your Own Can Start Here
At Balanced Life Therapy, we strive to create a compassionate and collaborative therapeutic environment where you feel heard, understood, and supported. Our Dialectical Behaviour Therapy group can provide actionable, real-world tools for emotional regulation, distress tolerance, mindfulness, and interpersonal effectiveness.
We look forward to hearing from you and supporting you on your journey. Please reach out to book a free, 20-minute consultation to get started.
Dialectical Behaviour Therapy Group in Barrie, ON
27 Gowan St.
Barrie, ON L4N 2N9
Contact
Phone: (705) 345-6522
Email: hello@balancedlifetherapy.com
Hours
Mon–Thurs: 8am to 8pm
Fri: 8am to 5pm
Sat: Closed
Sun: 9am to 4pm